Today I received an old library copy of The Star Beast, complete with checkout stamps in the back from the late 1950s. The piece is a tad banged up around the edges, but they bound these babies quite solidly back then. No matter what, though, the book has a gorgeous colorful cover by Clifford Geary, and a nice black-and-white frontispiece illustration.

It was a great find...and now it is scanned, and posted to the appropriate page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.